Ludhiana, June 19 -- Five new Covid-19 cases were reported in the district on Wednesday, taking the tally to 60 cases so far. The new cases include three men, aged 30, 33 and 39 years, and two women, aged 64 and 25. While two of the patients (a 33-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman) are symptomatic and admitted, a 25-year-old is mildly symptomatic and in home isolation.

The 64-year-old had already been admitted to the hospital as she suffers from a heart ailment and was found Covid positive upon screening on Wednesday. Similarly, the 33-year-old man was also already admitted as he suffered from diarrhoea. The rest of the two are asymptomatic.

Of the total 60 cases reported so far, only 33 are positive at present. Of these, only four a...